[WarpCast] Verisign Certificate Expiration for Netscape Navigator and Communicator for OS/2 - 11/30/99




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Source: Ava Rodriguez (avarod@us.ibm.com)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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Important Security Alert for Webmasters, Internet Administrators and Users

Verisign Certificate Expiration

Netscape Communicator 4.05 or earlier include a root certificate set
to expire on December 31, 1999. Users of these browsers will
experience an additional dialog box when connecting to secure sites
after January 1, 2000. This is a user interface issue; root CA
certificate expiration does not affect SSL encryption. A user may 
safely click on continue and proceed with secure transactions. This
is not a Y2K issue.

In order to eliminate this additional dialog box, the user must
upgrade their browser or delete and obtain a new root CA certificate.


This applies to Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 and to Netscape
Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp. Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2
Warp has an updated root CA certificate and needs no action. 

For more information, please see:

  http://www.ibm.com/software/os/warp/netscape 

or click on Release Notes under Help on your browser.
 
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